I would like to run a Grapple like this:

Colossus and Wolverine are in the thick of a training scenario in the Danger Room. The exercise sounded simple enough: capture the Wolverine and bring him back to base. After spending more than twelve hourse engaged in guerilla hand-to-hand combat with the clawed canuck, Colossus finally sees Logan starting to sweat, starting to tire. Indefatiguable, Colossus has no problem spending all night engaged in grueling rigorous combat and chases. Seeing his opportunity to strike, Colossus's player makes his move and rolls Physique to manuever against Wolverine. The roll is Fantastic (+6) and the Aspect Trapped In a Bear Hug[/i] is applied to Wolverine! Now if Wolverine wants to take any action beyond what is reasonable whilst Trapped In a Bear Hug he must score greater than Fantastic (+6) on his roll. Otherwise, he remains trapped and Colossus can carry him back to the base and reign victorious in this training scenario.


Something I think we should consider: With our grapple, would a player be able to do all the things you could do using the book's grapple?

Let me think of how I would adjudicate some things.

Inflicting Stress/Attacking While Grappled
Colossus gets a hold of Wolverine, placing the Trapped In a Bear Hug[/i] Aspect on him. The Russian decides he wants to choke Wolverine out or something. So, he rolls Physique to attack Wolverine and he can Invoke the Trapped In a Bear Hug[/i] for +2 on his roll. Wolverine can defend using Physique or Fight, or anything else the player might suggest that seems appropriate. This would represent the struggle and difficulty of trying to choke Wolverine out.

Moving Across Zones While Grappled[/u]
By the book, you roll Physique -1 and freely move one zone.
Our way, I think that the victim of the Grapple opposes the movement, right? So, you roll Physique to drag the person wherever you want and the victim tries to stop you by resisting (Physique or Fight?) or distraction (Deceit or Intimidation?) or by any other means that makes sense, right? If the attacker succeeds, you move one zone. If the defends succeeds you don't get to move at all. Hence, why choking someone out is an option.

Maneuvering[/u]
This one seems pretty straight forward.
By the book: roll Physique -1, if successful your Maneuver is applied.
Our way, I think the victim would oppose the Maneuver the same way as above. Whoever wins gets their way. This has the additional permutation that the victim can Maneuver against his attacker in the same way. Perhaps Wolverine wants to break the Grapple using Fight and he has special Stunts or Powers (involving his Adamantinium skeleton/claws) that gives him a bonus to this roll to create Maneuvers. And Wolverine is able to remove the Trapped In a Bear Hug[/i] Aspect.